Remote - Europe Remote (Country) Employment $150 per month

Alpaca is hiring a Senior Software Engineer - Clearing

About the Role

The individual will lead development efforts on mission-critical clearing infrastructure, ensuring reliability, scalability, and compliance with financial regulations.

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement backend systems for trade clearing and settlement
  • Collaborate with compliance and product teams to meet regulatory requirements
  • Optimize system performance and ensure high availability
  • Write clean, maintainable code with thorough testing coverage
  • Troubleshoot and resolve production issues promptly
  • Participate in code reviews and architecture discussions
  • Maintain data integrity across distributed systems
  • Work closely with operations to ensure smooth deployments
  • Support audit and reporting needs for regulatory bodies
  • Contribute to documentation for internal and external stakeholders
  • Evaluate new technologies for potential integration
  • Ensure systems scale with growing transaction volume
  • Implement monitoring and alerting for critical services
  • Follow security best practices in all development phases
  • Assist in defining engineering standards and best practices
  • Mentor junior engineers and promote knowledge sharing
  • Respond to incidents with on-call responsibilities
  • Integrate with third-party financial institutions and data providers
  • Ensure end-to-end accuracy of financial calculations
  • Help refine development workflows and tooling
  • Participate in sprint planning and technical estimation
  • Drive improvements in system observability
  • Maintain alignment with business goals through regular updates
  • Support certification and compliance audits
  • Contribute to disaster recovery planning

Compensation

Competitive salary with equity and benefits

Work Arrangement

Remote or hybrid options available

Team

Part of a core engineering team focused on financial infrastructure

About the Role

  • This position is central to building and maintaining the clearing layer that ensures accurate and timely settlement of trades.
  • Engineers in this role work at the intersection of finance, regulation, and technology to deliver robust systems.

Technology Stack

  • Primary language is Go, with services deployed on Kubernetes.
  • Uses PostgreSQL for transactional data and Redis for caching.
  • Infrastructure managed through Terraform with monitoring via Prometheus and Grafana.

Available for qualified candidates

About company
Alpaca
Alpaca is a US-headquartered self-clearing broker-dealer and brokerage infrastructure for stocks, ETFs, options, crypto, fixed income, 24/5 trading, and more. It provides institutional-grade APIs to financial institutions including broker-dealers, investment advisors, wealth managers, hedge funds, and crypto exchanges across 40 countries.
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Department Clearing
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Posted 13 days ago